Definitions
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- noun Alternative form of
cell phone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
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Examples
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The cellphone sample was drawn from a list of cellphone users in the city, and respondents were screened to ensure that their cellphone is their only phone.
Paladino Pummeled in Poll Michael Howard Saul 2010
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Thanks to better quality lenses, longer battery life and dirt cheap memory cards, your cellphone is a convenient tool for capturing life's fleeting moments with the push of a button.
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Your old cellphone is impractical since it uses CDMA technology and cannot be unlocked to work with the Amigo prepaid plan.
Can I get a SIM card and use my cell phone from the states? 2009
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Your old cellphone is impractical since it uses CDMA technology and cannot be unlocked to work with the Amigo prepaid plan.
Can I get a SIM card and use my cell phone from the states? 2009
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Your old cellphone is impractical since it uses CDMA technology and cannot be unlocked to work with the Amigo prepaid plan.
Can I get a SIM card and use my cell phone from the states? 2009
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Chip maker Broadcom Corp. successfully won an ITC exclusion order against cellphones that use chips from rival Qualcomm, as part of a series of patent cases that Broadcom used to press for a broader position in cellphone chips.
Tech Firms Intensify Clashes Over Patents Don Clark 2010
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A modern cellphone is nothing like a late-1980s cellphone.
Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Your old cellphone is impractical since it uses CDMA technology and cannot be unlocked to work with the Amigo prepaid plan.
Can I get a SIM card and use my cell phone from the states? 2009
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Your old cellphone is impractical since it uses CDMA technology and cannot be unlocked to work with the Amigo prepaid plan.
Can I get a SIM card and use my cell phone from the states? 2009
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The even smaller subset of uniquely motivated voters interviewed on a cellphone is voting 12: 1 "Yes" on marijuana.
strev commented on the word cellphone
what! -prisoners have telephones?
June 14, 2009